Viva la revolution
Offline Canadian and American media has pretty abysmal at covering it, but the Iranian government is now beginning to slip beneath the crushing weight of what is becoming a full-fledged revolutionary movement. They're having to shoot into protests and fly in thugs to try and stem the tide... and, in all hopes, that may prove to be an ever worse decision. Ahmed is hesistant to deploy the Iranian military to attempt to outright crush the demonstrators, and speculation is that his hesistance is at least partly due to justified fears that his military will turn a coup on him if brought to the table.
Cheers to the courageous young fools putting themselves between the gun of their oppressors and their liberty. Hopefully they will be the beginning of an exciting future to come in the Persian Gulf.
"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
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And here ou thoughtthat starting a new republic in the region might be a problem beause Bush jr. was behind it...
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This just goes to show... that when enough people gather around and start killing each other... things tend to work themselves out... ^_^
What Would Kharn Do?
More proof that absolute power corrupts absolutly.
That is what is needed. Being that 70% of Iran's population are under 30,I think that a coup could be the outcome of this so called election.Young people are more into a revolution,than their elders.
Signature ? How ?
...Except that Dick Cheney (George Bush could hardly run a car, much less your government), long insane after his nearly fatal annuerism, had no interest in setting-up a republic in the persian gulf. Military bases and puppet governments at best.
Anyway, as the title says, viva la revolution! Tonight I'm tipping a few back for our heroes across the pond.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
much less a government ! I have to disagree with your assessment of Bush, I think that he was coached to seem stupid to the normal person.He ran the Government the exact way that corporation's wanted, and our military benefited greatly (not for the average Joe) but for the military industrial complex,with over 750 military bases,they always need a war.Now that Haliburton, KBR,and other corporations that are making a fortune,it only goes to show that he wasn't as dumb as we think.
Signature ? How ?
My heart goes out to these protestors and their dissent against their crappy government, but the pessimist in me suspects that the Iranian government will hold out against the protestors for quite some time. My prediction is that this is the begining of a long and painful struggle for the Iranians to kick their incompetent leaders out of office. I would be amazed if the Iranians had a sane and somewhat moderate government within the next 5 years.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India
He spent the majority of his term on his ranch, not actually running the government.
If you want to attribute decisions to anyone, it would be Cheney.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
-not actually running the government.If you want to attribute decisions to anyone,it would be Cheney. I do know that Cheney made a lot of big decisions being the former president of Haliburton,and compared to other vice-Presidents,but all and all it comes down to Bush,to give the final OK.In Richard Clark's (former adviser to Bush) book.Bush was lining up Iraq in early 2000,before 9-11.The core of Bushes war was to control the oil fields of Iraq,to be the man with his hand on the spigot-valve and send up oil prices.The Bush family has been into oil for decades.
Signature ? How ?
I think you might be giving Bush too much credit. His entire life is nothing but one large failure. He was even given a profitable oil company by his dad that he ran into the ground.
My opinion is he stayed on his ranch and OKd what he was told to, and Cheney made the calls under approval of others that had their hands in the pot.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
I don't think there's any denying that Pa-Pa Bush had a large say.He was the brains behind Reagan(I didn't like him) and ran the CIA and was an ambassador in China (probably a CIA cover)
Signature ? How ?
khomeini was a fascist with a socialist veneer. he was definitely an improvement over the shah, though, in my opinion. now, however, the iranian government is completely out of touch and is a classic example of the last gasps of stalinist power politics (and that means a total stifling of politics). may the revolution come to pass and may it belong to the WORKERS!
personally, despite all their bombast, i think the bush/cheney clique liked khamenei and ahmadinejad right where they are. students tend to think too independently. still, to see how successful the revolution will be, look past ahmadinejad to the imam. if the youth are too reverent and superstitious to kick khamenei into the gutter, things will never change.
i personally hope for the best. i think enough of them are ready to tear the motherfucker's beard out.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
If the will of the average Iranian was allowed they would have a democracy, however that isn't in line with islam.
Love to see it come to pass, can't see it happening.
How can not believing in something that is backed up with no empirical evidence be less scientific than believing in something that not only has no empirical evidence but actually goes against the laws of the universe and in many cases actually contradicts itself? - Ricky Gervais